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Entry: Right Face! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/right_face#14224 Post contents: It's IRONY! You're MISREADING! Speaking as a graduate of one of them "elite" liberal arts schools: only one commenter has so far realized that a misreading of collegiate irony is at the heart of the article's argument. Despite being signed up for a number of silly facebook groups -- aka, "Citizens for the Issue of Letters of Marque" -- "Root Vegetables are Murder" -- I mean my endorsements of these ideas as itself a spectacle, rather than literal policy positions. I'll concede that, in other times and places, they could be taken literally (say, in the time of corsairs and Jains... no offense to either). There's legitimate support for Ron Paul. 80% of Americans think God is required for Biology; a strong minority believe in angels; some people think humanity was bombed onto the planet from interplanetary b-29s. We have enough silly ideas in the marketplace; let's not misconstrue jokes to see them where they're not. Sent at: 2008 11 21